South Fremantle Football Club
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Full name: South Fremantle Football Club
Nickname: Bulldogs
Home Ground: Fremantle Oval
Formed: 1900
Sport: Australian rules football
League: West Australian Football League (WAFL)
Colours: White and Red
Playing strip: White Guernsey with a Red V in the centre (home); Red Guernsey with White V in the center (away)
Club Song: We're the Bulldogs
President/Chair: Terry Dean
Coach: John Dimmer
2005: Premiers
WAFL Premierships: 1916-17, 1947-48, 1950, 1952-53-54, 1970, 1980, 1997, 2005 (12)
Sandover Medallists: Jack Rocchi 1928; Frank Jenkins 1937; Clive Lewington 1947; Steve Marsh 1952; John Todd (footballer) 1955; Stephen Michael 1980 & 1981; Mark Bairstow 1986; Craig Edwards 1989; Toby McGrath 2005 (9 Medallists/10 Medals)
Tassie Medallists: Stephen Michael 1983; Brad Hardie 1984, 1986 (3)
All Australians: Steve Marsh 1953; John Gerovich 1956; Cliff Hillier 1956; John Todd 1961; Brian Ciccotosto 1972; Stephen Michael 1983 (6)
Record Home Attendance: 23,109 v. East Fremantle on 4th June 1979
Highest Score: 40.18 (258) vs. West Perth in 1981
Most Games: 266 by Marty Atkins
Short History: The South Fremantle Football Club dates back to 1900 when it was formed because the once invincible Fremantle Football Club that had carried the hopes of football followers at the port was in debt and disarray. The new club did well in its first year, finishing runners-up. However, over the next three seasons the performance fell away badly and, in April 1904 a Fremantle newspaper confidently reported that South Fremantle would not appear again. However, the club decided to carry on and centreman Harry Hodge took over as skipper, but the season was a disaster. The club won only one game. Something had to be done, and it was. Despite the early Rough days the South Fremantle FC is now a prsopering club with one of the highest supporter bases in the WAFL compitition.
Over its 105-year history South Fremantle has produced many fine AFL players & produced many fine WAFL players. South has won 12 premierships & is now the first WAFL club to have won 10 grand finals since World-War II.
Four of the 12 premierships were won against the club's traditional rivals, East Fremantle. Known as derbies (pronounced to rhyme with herb, not car), they are the biggest games of the year on the WAFL calendar. The Foundation Day derby on the first Monday in June (a public holiday to mark the Foundation of Western Australia in 1829) is commonly the highest attended game of the home and away season.
Notable players
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